Monthly Archives: September 2009

Exactitude in small matters…

Exactitude in small matters is the very soul of discipline. I didn’t say it, Joseph Conrad did in perhaps his most obscure work, The Secret Sharer. If you haven’t read yet, go ahead; I’ll wait. I just finished mowing the … Continue reading

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Influence is the new volume

It’s not about the number of page views, the number of subscribers, etc. but the impact each of the ones who care about your success or failure. For every person who makes their presence known on your Web site, blog … Continue reading

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Eight years ago

Eight years ago, I was doing work for the NIE department at the Dayton Daily News. The Web site person had gone home for the day (this is when newspapers only updated their Web sites once a day and everything … Continue reading

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It was not like that when I was a little kid

“It was not like that when I was a little kid,” she said as I mused about life, sitting on the sofa with my daughter watching some mindless movie on a Saturday morning. I was musing that having friends means … Continue reading

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